Promised land is a term used to describe the land promised by God, according to the Hebrew Bible, to the Israelites. The promise is firstly made to Abraham (Gen15:18-21) and then renewed to his son, Isaac and to Isaac’s son, Jacob (Gen 28:13) Abraham’s grandson. The promised land was given to their descendants and was described in terms of the territory from the River of Egypt to the Euphrates river – Wikipedia
Generally, I believe many people understand “land” to mean nation (i.e. land mass) or people group. However, God recently revealed to me through a friend, that there is another perspective to the meaning of land. That Promised Land resides within me and it comprises of Joy, Love, Peace, Faith and Victory; indwelling attributes that have an effect on the environment outside of me. For example, if I am happy and joyful within, I will have the power to influence my surroundings to also be filled with happiness and joy.
Upon further meditation, I also heard Holy Spirit say to me that “Promised Land is also my destiny in Christ Jesus.”
By bringing the Israelites out of Egypt, God set them free from taking orders from their taskmasters in order that they might live a life that is free from being told what to do everyday and having the liberty to enter into the Place where they are able to receive all that God had intended for them to receive.
However I suddenly realised that, like Israel in the Exodus story … though my geography had changed there was still no change in my heart. Egypt was still resident within as I suddenly saw my “Egypt” to be my love of eating, love for comfortable surroundings always and my laziness (i.e. loving the idea that working less is better because it is less trouble and makes me am happier) etc…
I learned that though “Egypt” may take sometime to be removed from me, I needed to take the first steps out of there by changing the desires of my heart. I needed to desire to change the way of life that I had grown comfortable with and known my whole life, and learn to embrace and be the leader that had God intended me to be. I learned that for me, it was important to constantly proclaim to things “IT IS EASY!!”and to start to making decisions and taking responsibility for them.
I had already chosen, sometime ago, to fear the Lord and serve Him with all of my being and to “always choose to walk in obedience to Him” (see Joshua 24:14-15). However these past weeks have seen me unconsciously doing the exact opposite with my murmuring and unhappy ways …
Today, I know that this is a test I have to go through and my Heavenly Father is doing all He can (getting friends to counsel me, receiving an email from an old classmate telling me to move from a graveyard experience to one of glory….) to ensure that I succeed.
And when I am being tested, I am learning that I must always remember that God never intends for His children to fail and that He will not test them beyond what they can bear.
Though all of this is “easier said than done” … I will do my best to live out John 20:29 “ blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe” and fully trust Him to deliver me from every situation.







